See Also: primary process(medicine)
Primary process(health)
PRIMARY(law)
PRIMARY(medicine)
primary(dictionary)
Rau's process(medicine)
Due Process Of Law(law)
DUE PROCESS(law)
process(3)(dictionary)
due process(encyclopedia)

set piece (iou) and primary process (medicine)


set piece (iou)



set piece noun phr. & adjective. Also (esp. as adjective) set-piece. M19.
[from SET adjective + PIECE noun.]
A. noun phr.
A formal composition in Art or literature; spec. a more or less self-contained passage or section of a literary work. M19.
M. Dibdin Iovino's speech had been a brilliant set piece. Times Literary Supplement The novel is really a series of set-pieces.
Theatrical. A piece of scenery representing a single feature such as a tree, a gate, etc. M19.
An arrangement of fireworks composing a picture or design. L19.
An organized movement, action, or manoeuvre; spec. in team ball Games, a (usu. rehearsed) movement or feature of the game by which the ball is returned to play, as at a scrummage or a free kick. M20.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Having the attributes of a set piece; formally or elaborately planned or composed. M20.
P. Ziegler Jutland had been the last great set-piece battle. B. Beaumont Some of the backs..demanding quicker ball from the set-piece play.

primary process (medicine)


primary process


In psychoanalysis, the mental process directly related to the functions of the primitive life forces associated with the id and characteristic of unconscious mental activity; marked by unorganised, illogical thinking and by the tendency to seek immediate discharge and gratification of instinctual demands.

Compare: secondary process.